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We keep dipping into this type of thing in various threads, so I figured I'd start one to talk about the intersection of society and technology. How one changes or informs the other, the results of these interactions, that kind of thing. Are you angry at your ex? Do you get a kick out of bullying people you know? Are you still bitter about facebook removing the dislike button? Do you enjoy denying the basic humanity of others? Well good news! Starting in November, there's an app for that. I don't think I need to elucidate all the ways this is terrible--they should be immediately apparent. Part of me wants to chalk this up to some morbid curiousity, or perhaps this being the most recent way that capitalism can devalue people as just another type of commodity. I don't like to discredit things that are controversial, mainly because in some far-fetched universe I can imagine a way something like this would be positive, but to be honest I can't imagine a way that a service like this could be used in a positive way. I know I should try to be intellectual about this, but these types of things just inspire in me a rage that I don't think I could express objectively.